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New stories
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Engaging Pasifika families – Owairaka School builds a fale
The staff at Owairaka School have explored ways to build deep connections and partnerships with the many cultural groups and families at their school. This story tells how the community worked together to bring elements of Samoan culture to the school in the construction of a traditional fale.
Creating a positive learning culture
Kathryn Hutchison from Wellington East Girls’ College discusses how she creates a positive learning culture. She explains how exemplars, modeling, collaboration, and learning conversations are integral to helping students learn how to learn. |
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System of support
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 System of support: PLD inventories
The system of support section has information about the everyday resources and tools available to learners, teachers, leaders, and schools. Eleven new professional learning and development inventories were added to the school-initiated PLD section. These inventories include information for centrally funded PLD for years 1-8, years 1-13 and years 9-13. |
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Learning to learn
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BES Exemplar 5: Learning logs – He kete wherawhera (PDF 1.6MB)
Using learning logs with senior secondary students, and how this strengthens student–teacher communications and accelerates learning.Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory (ELLI)
Ruth Deakin Crick introduces ELLI, a framework for assessing the seven dimensions of student learning: changing and learning, meaning making, critical curiosity, creativity, learning relationships, strategic awareness, and resilience.
Creating learning spaces
Anne Kenneally has spent this year experimenting with student designed learning spaces, allowing the students to take the lead in deciding what spaces they need for different activities. |
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Secondary middle leaders
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Choosing your own path through NCEA
Kristan Mowat, Head of Media Studies at Logan Park High School, describes how her school empowers students to set goals and make choices. Students are supported to make choices about their learning pathways through flexibility with NCEA internals and externals, and the standards that match their interest and needs. |
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National Standards
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Progress and Consistency Tool (PaCT)
A progress and consistency tool is being developed to support teachers’ professional judgments in relation to the National Standards, and to improve the measurement of learner progress over time. |
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Community engagement
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Funds of knowledge
Funds of knowledge describes the rich resource that students bring to our classrooms from their household and family experiences. This blog post provides some background links to explore this idea further. |
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This is our last newsletter for 2012. The NZC Online team would like to wish you all a very Meri Kirihimete and a well deserved, restful, and happy new year break.
